The How I Met Your Mother Blog

“I don’t care. I’ve been with one woman for too long and I need some strange.”

What Was Good

• Pamela Fryman is back!
• Barney’s chart is funny. It’s just pushing the “trying too hard” line though. Although I have a feeling the Mendosa Diagonal is going to enter the general vocabulary…
• The story of how Marshall and Barney met is my favorite. Tricking Barney into thinking he was trying to pick up that stranger was genius.
• We finally saw the scene where Ted and Marshall meet that was described in “Where Were We”. We also saw lesson four of Barney’s lessons for life the night he and Ted met which references back all the way to the pilot.
• I love that when Lily brings up the guy she made out with before she even met Marshall, over seven years ago, Marshall remembers through gritted teeth and when Ted brings up the girl that he made out with the same night Marshall remembers with a proud smile.
• The prolonged sandwich metaphor.
• A World of Warcraft reference! That hits a little too close to home for me. Although it puts me and Ted back in the “alike” column after last week’s hip hop mishap. I’m more than a little bit sad to admit that a) I saw it coming that the female avatar was going to be Ted because…I had a female avatar and b) Blah Blah was a Draenei Warrior and Ted was a Human Mage. Yeah…

What Was Bad

• I hate girls like Blah Blah. They’re not funny, they just make me mad. Who is willing to tell a guy’s lifelong best friend a deep secret at the drop of a hat? I suppose it’s really Ted’s fault, you can’t really blame the stove for burning you if you know it’s hot.
• I’m concerned the show is getting too self referential. It was funny when there was a joke about a character saying “no” a lot in repetition in last year’s finale, it wasn’t as funny tonight.
• With all the girls whispering sexy proposals into guys’ ears that makes them cave in on whatever secret/purchase/favor they’re holding out on has begged the question: what could a girl possibly offer that would make a guy do a 180 like that? Nothing I can think of. It’s becoming a plot device.
• Our favorite friends haven’t aged very well, have they? Although, this is pretty hilarious.

Favorite Moments

“Alright but spoiler alert: it ends with everyone saying ‘aww’. It starts with it too.”
“Dude this black-haired, goth chick stopped by today. WANNA TAP IT!”
“Let them drink their $1 beers. Try this, it’s a pinot noir from Europe. Yeah, I cut it with cranberry juice, it was pretty strong.”
“While you were busy majoring in being freaking beautiful I was starting my own line of handbags.”
“Lily, come on. Lily, come on. Lily…come on.”
“I’m your bro. I’m broda.”
and one of the best, if not most hand-fisted jokes in the series:

Barney: “And tonight you’re going to use The Force to get the hottest chick in this bar into bed.”
Ted: “He’s gonna use force? Because that sounds wrong broda.”

“I don’t need this. I design handbags. I’m a superstar!”
“Where’s my wife?”

Barney’s Vocab Word of the Week

Mendosa Diagonal

–noun

The 1:1 minimum ratio of hotness to craziness as plotted on a line graph a girl must fall above in order to be desirable. As craziness rises, so too must hotness.